I place my greeting to all. SSS, one of the national-level (top-five) leading development organizations, has been promoting values in the agro-fishery-livestock, small trades, handicrafts, mini-garments, transports, direct services, and so forth of rural and urban economy through setting pragmatic strategies and a variety of people-oriented socioeconomic activities to application, which puff up the income, assets and living standard, self and wage-employments and escalate our economy at the grassroots. As on 30 June 2023, under the umbrella of SSS, a total of 10 lac 52 thousand families included themselves as the group-member, of them, 2,21,443 are entrepreneurs. In 2022-23, the organization as a part of financial services facilitated credit disbursement of Tk. 7,993.47 crore by the solemn efforts of 6,391 devoted employees under 583 branch offices.
SSS constantly pulls out hand with help and services to the people, even though—in the disasters and national and global crises, especially–the organization carried on financial services, positive motivation, relief and rehabilitation, health and nutrition cares and so on activities in favor of the people. In 2022-23, the organization provided healthcares to 1,48,242 people under the Health Program, services to 2,894 students belonging to the non-take-up families under the Education and Child Development Program, a set of benefits to 4,550 elderly people under the Livelihood Development of the Elderly Persons Program and paid out Tk. 14.63 crore on social welfare and development activities as grant-in-aid.
In aspect of development, the organization, emphasizing need and welfare of the target people, engaged in Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and national and international tools to design and implement the programs and projects in favor of poverty alleviation. Conversely, SSS straightforwardly contributes to the national exchequer through paying the right amount of Tax and VAT various ways, particularly–on bills and deposits, and complies with the Tax and VAT law and regulations in the applicable case.
In the dimension of integrated development, the organization has been implementing a variety of holistic activities in the field of agro-fishery-livestock through furnishing with inclusive financial and technical services, technologies transformation and proper information (of market and price), which shore up a number of sustained enterprises in the working area as well. Many of them—Dragon Fruit Cultivation, PACE (cow rearing and dairy farm), Indigenous and Kadaknath Chicken Rearing projects and Rural Microenterprise Transformation Project (RMTP) are mentionable. Parallel, Nation-building through Eradication Malnutrition (NEM) Program, Improvement of Pineapple Qualities through Good Agricultural Practices of Madhupur Zone (IPGAP) project under SEP, Extended Community Climate Change-Flood (ECCCP-Flood) project are engaged in conserving ecological balance, producing safe fruits and foods and making better livelihoods in the grassroots.
To draw together the quality, efficiency and innovation in every stage, SSS boosts up wildly meticulous efforts. The organization always pursues the standard policies, strategies, leadership, good governance, transparency, efficiency, technologies, IT involvement and professionalism and also confers highest priority to turn the people (both of staff members and group-members) into resourceful and productive through training, education, mentoring and study tours. In 2022-23, the organization set to arranging a range of training courses with 8,439 participants, wherein, 2,373 were employees and 6,066 group-members.
I place my good-wishes and thanks to the development partners, government and non-government agencies, banks and other financial institutions, especially—MRA, NGO Affairs Bureau, Social Services Department, Joint Stock Company, PKSF, Bangladesh Bank, Commercial Banks and Financial Intermediaries, Government Different Departments and Ministries. We are truly grateful to the members of our General and Executive Bodies for their endless collaboration to switch on the organizational vision, mission, core values and strategies. I put my affection and appreciation to the employees and group-members, who always try their best to secure the objectives of the organization with dedication and hard-work
With Thanks,
Abdul Hamid Bhuiyan
Executive Director, SSS